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Grace Kelly (2009)

by Donald Spoto(Favorite Author)

3.57 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

8426419585 (ISBN13: 9788426419583)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Random House Mondadori

review 1: I enjoyed the subject matter and trusted the author, as he only referenced interviews he himself had with the Princess or information that was public. However, this created some big gaps in the story. The years between the births of her children & her death are almost completely ignored, save a few comments regarding narrative work she did. We got appreciable detail on every aspect of her early life, & then 20+ years is glossed over like nothing. Frustrating.
review 2: Grace Kelly, according to the author Donald Spoto, said she didn't consider herself a very interesting person. If she had read Mr. Spoto's book, it would have confirmed her opinion.Grace Kelly -- Let's leave it at this: She was a working actress.This palace-approved biography is sweet but short o... moren the kind of meat and potatoes that make a celebrity book worth reading.Her acting career was woefully short for someone who has gotten the attention she has received over the years for just 11 movies. If she had continued in film rather than marrying a mini-prince from a mini-principality, it's doubtful that she would been elevated to the acting Pantheon she occupies today. I stopped this book at about halfway. It just wasn't very interesting. The author appears to be plying his trade as Grace Kelly's publicist rather than her biographer. He dismisses out of hand any romance or affairs with her co-stars that have been rumored for decades and much of the book feels like he had a contract for a 320-page book and he's padding it out to that number of pages. He chronicles each and every play, television show and movie in which Grace Kelly worked. He tells about the cast, the directors, and on and on. (Mr. Spoto has written three books on Alfred Hitchcock. I'm guessing he didn't have to do any additional research to add the Hitchcock material to this book.)Here's what I got and liked from the part of the book I read: Grace Kelly was a working actress. She didn't make many movies but when she wasn't in a movie, she was always studying acting and/or working in the theater or in television and modeling before her acting career took off. She was a decent person with manners, intelligence and loyalty to family and friends. It really doesn't matter that she was an actress. She was the kind of person I think I would like to have known. less

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